Petter Palander

random thoughts on random subjects

I've always loved maps. I remember when I was little and we went on road trips with the family, I was constantly following the maps where we were, and where we were heading.
After visiting Rome on a weekend trip I remember mapping out on Google Earth turn by turn…

If you're building a product company, you will have to live and breath that product. Every day. That's the only way to get under its skin and completely understand it and be able to tell and sell the vision to the world.
Photo Credits: Attribution 3.0 Сергей Лепехин…

The Future, Now
Last day (2013-04-30) of my 6 month stay in Bangkok I had the privilege of speaking at Pecha Kucha Bangkok. The talk was about some technologies and tre that's changing our lives now and probably in the futur.
Since I have no idea about the future I…

A quick sketch on an idea I've been playing with for a while. Simply a timeline, mixed with a map on which you can see your posts from various social services and a map with pins marking where you wrote something, listened to something, met someone or whatever else you…

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
Northen Europe has highest contribution/articles per capita
#5 site in the world
Who are the wikipedias? 87% men. Mostly computer geeks.
Average age, 26
Double the % of PhDs
If you're 15 and younger internet is ubiquitous and has been for their entire life
Why are you…

Today I was listening to Kelly Hoey, advisor and investor from WIM (Women Innovate Mobile) - an accelerator in New York. She was talking at Minc, Malmö's startup incubator. I typed as fast as I could to capture the talk. Here it is, raw and unedited, for the world…

I have a thing for big cities. The bigger the city and the more people, the more I like it. I've been thinking about why that might be.n While some people dread the crowdedness and stress, I find it calming and liberating.
I might have figured out why I…